Lies in education [was Re: The "loop and a half"]
Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Thu Oct 12 21:31:51 EDT 2017
On 2017-10-13, Stefan Ram <ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> writes: There is no such
>>thing as a "byte" in C.
>
> »3.6
>
> 1 byte
>
> addressable unit of data storage large enough to hold
> any member of the basic character set of the execution
> environment«
>
> ISO C standard
Ah, I had forgotten about that paragraph. Now that I see the phrase
"large enough to hold any member of the basic character set of the
execution environment", I'm pretty sure I knew that at some point in
the past.
That means that in the context of the ISO C standard, on that
architecture, 1 byte is 32 bits.
--
Grant
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